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Kentrosaurus
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus (Hennig 1915)
Late Jurassic (Tithonian) · 161.5–143.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus is a stegosaur dinosaur known from the Late Jurassic, roughly 161.5–143.1 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Hennig 1915). The species is represented by 26 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~65%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 26 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Kentrosaurus sits in deep time
Kentrosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Kentrosaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.